by Fred Carmichael
by Special Arrangements with Samuel French, Inc.
Performed October 16-18, 2003
Program for Murder on the Rerun
The curtain rises to find Jane, Oscar winning screen writer, dead at the bottom of the stairs in a Vermont ski lodge. Her four friends and husband are saying she fell. "I was pushed!" she says as her ghost rises. Aided by Kitty, a rather wanton adviser from "up there," Jane is brought ahead to the present, three years after the murder, where the same group is gathered. They are all famous film makers with an intense hate love relationship; Jane's husband who has married an ambitious ingenue, a heading for middle age leading lady, an arrogant director, and Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist. The five suspects join together to keep the possible murder quiet for reasons of their own but their relationship busts apart with their mutual distrust.
Cast: (From Left to Right)
Robert Shivers as Justin Wills
Kris Kritzer as Hugh Lawton
Cheyenne Cook as Valerie Vickers
Amber Hoffelder as Kitty
Brittaney Miller as Betsy Randolph
Lula Chavez as Jane Ackerly
Michelle Chaffee as Edwinna Dunbar
Director: Erin Binkley
Stage Manager: Chris Barr
Advisor: Tim Hopp